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Definition of Overcapitalization
1. Noun. (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants).
Generic synonyms: Capitalisation, Capitalization
Category relationships: Business, Business Enterprise, Commercial Enterprise
Derivative terms: Overcapitalise, Overcapitalize
Definition of Overcapitalization
1. Noun. the state of being overcapitalized ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcapitalization
Literary usage of Overcapitalization
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Railroad Finance by Frederick Albert Cleveland, Fred Wilbur Powell (1912)
"Proceeding from well chosen premises, some writers have convinced themselves that
such a condition as overcapitalization is impossible. ..."
2. Financing an Enterprise by Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1921)
"Causes of overcapitalization Just what constitutes overcapitalization is too ...
overcapitalization of ordinary business enterprises usually results from ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"overcapitalization and its consequences, 409 — Sec. 3. Stock speculation, stimulated
by overcapitalization, has facilitated acquisition of control by the ..."
4. Political Economy: Designed for Use in Catholic Colleges, High Schools and by Edmund J. Burke (1913)
"overcapitalization may be resorted to, with the result that prices will be raised
... overcapitalization exists when the capital is arbitrarily raised to a ..."
5. The Financing of Public Service Corporations by Milton Berge Ignatius (1918)
"The Commission in this case is not seeking justification for withholding consent
to the issue of additional securities on the ground that overcapitalization ..."
6. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
"overcapitalization.— Of all the policies followed ... there is none that has been
more generally condemned than the policy of overcapitalization. ..."
7. Bossism and Monopoly by Thomas Carl Spelling (1905)
"overcapitalization is the swelling of railroad and other corporate indebtedness
by the issue of stock and sale of bonds to represent exaggerated or ..."
8. The Elements of Railroad Engineering by William Galt Raymond (1917)
"Bad management in financiering, such as unduly increasing the bonded indebtedness,
or overcapitalization. This is sometimes done with dishonest intent, ..."
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